On Charlotte’s first night in his house, Patch tries to care for her carefully but gets almost everything wrong. He makes pizza because he worries about takeout, but Charlotte rejects it, compares his cooking to her mother’s, and also refuses the orange juice and improvised banana split he offers. Unsure how to handle even basic routines, Patch runs her a bath and calls Sammy to ask what time she usually goes to bed.

Patch also tries to make Charlotte comfortable by giving her a new television, but she abruptly withdraws upstairs instead. After waiting, he finds her lying in bed turned away from him. Although Charlotte dismisses stories as childish, Patch tells her one anyway, describing the long roads he traveled because a lost girl had once spoken to him about places across California and Alaska; the story reveals how deeply his past search still shapes him.

Patch sits outside Charlotte’s bedroom door, listening for her breathing, until Sammy arrives. In the backyard, Sammy drinks Blue Label and mentions a New York offer connected to “Grace Number One,” but Patch shows no interest. When Sammy asks whether everything stops now, Patch admits that he sees himself in Charlotte and confesses that he does not know how to be a parent; Sammy reframes that fear as something Patch can learn, just as he once learned to paint.

The conversation turns to Marty Tooms, whose remaining appeals are nearly gone. Patch understands that Tooms may die before revealing anything about Callie, yet still says Tooms deserves death for what he did. Sammy also asks whether Patch will paint again, and Patch answers no. Later, Patch finds Charlotte asleep with the television still on, and a news report about a mass shooting makes him feel the full terror of trying to keep another human being alive in a violent, unpredictable world.